Professional Tennis
Serena Williams continued her run toward a third consecutive major title, beating Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-0 on Monday to reach the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. Her 57-minute win over Kirilenko extended her current winning streak to 20 matches. Williams has lost only one match since her first-round exit at the French Open last year. Since…
Roger Federer advanced to reach a 35th straight Grand Slam quarterfinal, knocking off Milos Raonic in straight sets 6-4, 7-6, 6-2 in a little under two hours. Raonic had success against Federer in previous meetings, but this time around, Federer took control and kept it throughout of their fourth round clash in Rod Laver Arena….
Maria Sharapova defeated Venus Williams 6-1, 6-3 in a lopsided match-up between Grand Slam champions on Friday night to reach the fourth round of the 2013 Australian Open. Sharapova and Venus have 11 majors combined—four for Sharapova, and seven for Venus. The 32-year-old Williams broke Sharapova as the Russian was serving for the victory at 6-1,…
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic defeated Radek Stepanek in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 on Friday, extending his winning streak to 17 matches at the Australian Open. At Djokovic’s post-match news conference, the questions quickly turned from tennis to Lance Armstrong’s confessions about doping in cycling during his television interview with Oprah Winfrey in the U.S. Thursday night….
Weather for Day Five of the 2013 Australian Open was cloudy with a high of 72. Day Five’s Day Session saw a total of 43,904 attendees, while the Night Session saw 26,522 for a grand total of 70,426. On the men’s side, winners included the top-seeded Novak Djokovic, number four David Ferrer, number five Tomas…
French Open champion Rafael Nadal of Spain has targeted early February to make his comeback from injury at the Chilean Open. The ATP had already announced he would take part in the Brazil Open the following week. It will be Nadal’s first ever appearance at the Chilean Open. The former world number one has been sidelined with…
Maria Sharapova hasn’t lost a game yet through two rounds of action at the 2013 Australian Open, but that figures to change today as she finds herself with a very tough third round opponent in Venus Williams. Sharapova is the tournament’s second seed, and while Venus has slipped down the rankings due to injuries and…
Day Four of action at the 2013 Australian Open saw extremely hot temperatures in Melbourne Park. Seeded players certainly took to the courts looking to get back off the courts as soon as possible to preserve their energy and body for future matches. Some players were able to accomplish this feat, as on the men’s…
The biggest upset on Day Three of the 2013 Australian Open came at the expense of the hometown favorite as Australian Samantha Stosur, who was up 5-2 in the third set, was broken three straight times and lost the final five games as she was knocked out by the unseeded Zheng Jie. Other seeded women…
American Brian Baker’s hopes of a run at the 2013 Australian Open were ended on Wednesday when he was forced to retire from his second round match with Sam Querrey with a knee injury. Baker, who returned last year after seven years off the professional circuit, had won the first set against Querrey in a…